ग्राहक काउंटर से हट गया।

से here means from or away from.

So काउंटर से means from the counter / away from the counter. With verbs like हटना, Hindi usually marks the place someone moves away from with से.

• मेज़ से हट गया = moved away from the table
• दरवाज़े से हट जाओ = move away from the door

So in this sentence, से shows the point the customer moved away from.

हट गया means something like moved away, stepped aside, or got away from that spot.

The main verb is हटना, which means to move aside, to get out of the way, or to move away.

In this sentence:

• हट comes from हटना
• गया helps form a very common past/result meaning

So हट गया is not just a literal removed went. Together, it means that the action happened and was completed: the customer moved away from the counter.

Not exactly. On its own, गया can mean went, but in combinations like हट गया, it often works as part of a compound verb.

Here it adds a sense of:

• completion
• change of state
• the action fully happening

So हट गया is more natural than trying to read it word-by-word as moved + went.

You will see this a lot in Hindi:

• बैठ गया = sat down
• रुक गया = stopped
• मुड़ गया = turned
• हट गया = moved aside / moved away

Because the subject ग्राहक is being treated here as masculine singular.

With this kind of intransitive verb in the past/perfective, the verb usually agrees with the subject:

• masculine singular: गया
• feminine singular: गई
• masculine mixed/masculine plural: गए
• feminine plural: गईं in very careful Hindi, though in everyday speech people often simplify

So:

• ग्राहक काउंटर से हट गया। = a male customer moved away from the counter
• महिला ग्राहक काउंटर से हट गई। = a female customer moved away from the counter
• ग्राहक काउंटर से हट गए। = the customers moved away from the counter

Because हटना is an intransitive verb here.

In Hindi, ने is commonly used with many transitive verbs in the perfective, but not normally with verbs like हटना, where the subject is not acting directly on an object.

So you say:

• ग्राहक काउंटर से हट गया।

not

• ग्राहक ने काउंटर से हट गया।

That second version is ungrammatical.

A simple way to think about it:

• ने often appears when someone did something to something
• हटना is more like move away oneself

Here it is singular, because the verb is गया, which is masculine singular.

A useful thing to know is that ग्राहक often looks the same in singular and plural. The verb tells you the number:

• ग्राहक ... हट गया = the customer moved away
• ग्राहक ... हट गए = the customers moved away

So the noun itself may not change, but the verb agreement shows whether it is singular or plural.

It is a very common English loanword used in Hindi, written in Devanagari as काउंटर.

Hindi uses many everyday loanwords, especially for modern objects and places in shops, banks, offices, and stations. So this sentence sounds very natural.

Depending on context, other words might be possible, but काउंटर is perfectly normal for things like:

• shop counter
• bank counter
• ticket counter
• service counter

The most neutral order is:

Subject + place phrase + verb
ग्राहक + काउंटर से + हट गया

That is a very natural Hindi order.

Hindi word order is somewhat flexible, though. You can move parts around for emphasis, for example:

• काउंटर से ग्राहक हट गया।

This could be used if you want to emphasize from the counter. But the original sentence is the most straightforward, neutral version.

Also remember that Hindi uses postpositions, so से comes after काउंटर, not before it.

This is an important nuance.

• हट गया = moved aside / moved away from a particular place
• चला गया = went away / left

So if the customer simply moved away from the counter so someone else could come forward, हट गया is the better choice.

If the customer left the shop or went away entirely, चला गया would be more natural.

Compare:

• ग्राहक काउंटर से हट गया। = The customer moved away from the counter.
• ग्राहक दुकान से चला गया। = The customer left the shop.

So हट गया focuses on moving away from a spot, not necessarily leaving altogether.